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  1. Introduction
    1. A simple tutorial
    2. Switching to D
      1. From C/C++
      2. From Java
      3. From Pascal/Delphi
      4. From PHP :)
    3. An advanced tutorial
  2. Language Reference
    1. General syntax
    2. Statements
    3. Types
    4. Error Handling
    5. Memory Management
  3. Std. runtime library (Phobos)
    1. std.base64
    2. std.boxer
    3. std.compiler
    4. std.conv
    5. std.ctype
    6. std.date
    7. std.file
    8. std.format
    9. std.gc
    10. std.intrinsic
    11. std.math
    12. std.md5
    13. std.mmfile
    14. std.outbuffer
    15. std.path
    16. std.process
    17. std.random
    18. std.recls
    19. std.regexp
    20. std.socket
    21. std.socketstream
    22. std.stdint
    23. std.stdio
    24. std.stream
    25. std.string
    26. std.system
    27. std.thread
    28. std.uri
    29. std.utf
    30. std.zip
    31. std.zlib
  4. Libraries and Tools
    1. mango
    2. Build
  5. Related Links
  6. About this documentation
From PHP :)
I often use PHP. No, not only for websites, i write a lot of networking hacks in it, e.g. IRC-Bots and stuff. So i came up with the idea to "compare" PHP and D.

First and most important: D is a compiled language, PHP is interpreted.
Although PHP people may think PHP is a pretty fast interpreter because code is pre-compiled and cached and... - D is always faster. I even believe that D code could be faster when you add up compile and execute time.

D is strictly typed. PHP isn't. You wont be able to mulitply your string "45" with integer 3.
You also have to declare variables before using them, and they will only hold one certain type.

D has a lot more complex object orientation. Learn about that soon (Templates and stuff). You may even be able to compensate the type problem with that as you could write a class that can do anything a PHP variable can do.

PHP's got a really great standard library, thats why i have to write functions only for really specialized stuff. D's standard library, Phobos, isn't that large, but there are tons of libs from other people around. Take a look at http://dsource.org/ for example.
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